Title: When People Change
Author: Tristanluvr
Disclaimer: This is entirely my own work- no need to sue me. All characters belong to
Amy Sherman Palladino except the ones I put into the plot.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: When Tristan goes off to military school all he can think about is the evasive girl he could never get a date with...Rory Gilmore. So when he gets a call from her he takes his chance at reconciliation
A/N: Hey I have gotta thank everyone who had reviewed so far etc. etc.. Hope you like the new chapter.
Chapter 4
During her whole Algebra class Rory could not stop thinking about Tristan and how much she had started to like him. She smiled to herself at the thought, she still had an inkling thought that he still had feelings for her, not just those artificial I want to bang you feelings but the kind that she really wanted him to feel for her.
She sighed and before she knew it the bell had rung and the other students were picking up their books and going to their next classes. She had gym next and she hated it, the Chilton school council had decided to make gym class mandatory instead of just letting them take extra credit.
She walked to the girls locker room and changed all the while listening to Madeline and Louise talk about Tristan being back, "Oh my gad did you see Tristan I think that military school did him a lot of good, did you see the way his shoulders filled out his shirt." Louise sighed heavily. "Hey Rory I saw you with Mr. Hottie what were you talking about?"
Madeline and Louise looked at Rory and she sighed, "Well if you have to know I have been talking to him while he was gone and now we are somewhat friends." Rory looked up to see that both of them were staring at her. "You do realize that it is possible to be friends with Tristan?" They just continued to stare at her and Rory just walked out of the locker room.
Rory looked around the gym only to see that she was the first of the girls out of the locker room and that Tristan was the first of the guys.
Tristan saw her walk out of the locker room, god it didn't matter what that girl was wearing she was still beautiful. She walked over to him and sat down next to him where he was sitting on the bleachers. "Hey," she said to him with a slight smile gracing her face.
"Hello Mary," Tristan replied smugly he knew she hated that and he wanted to pull her chain. "How about giving me a taste of what I was supposed to look forward to?" He asked leaning forward suggestively."
"Hey Romeo you can stop right there," Rory said with a laugh putting two fingers over his mouth to stop him. She felt him smirk under her fingers and he wiggled him eyebrows with mischief in his eyes, and she pulled her fingers away.
"Well someday I just might not be able to contain myself and then what are we going to do?" He looked at her with a sarcastic pondering look.
"We are going to do something like this." Rory leaned forward and kissed him lightly, she started to pull away, and he went to pull her forward again when someone cleared their throat.
They looked up and they saw Louise and Madeline staring at them with all knowing looks on their faces.
"What?" They said at the same time.
"Nothing, nothing at all." Louise said with a smile.
"What I was just kidding around." Rory said defensively, and shot a glare at Louise.
"Whatever," Louise said and walked away to talk to some of the other Hartford Elite teens that were filtering into the gym.
Rory looked over at Tristan and blushed slightly, it was then that Tristan realized that the Rory he saw right now in front of him was still the same old Mary she had always been. There was just something up that he couldn't quit put his finger on.
He had a feeling that she was holding out on him, that there was some deep dark secret that she withheld from him and he needed to find out not only what that was. But how he could help her with it.
Rory looked over at Tristan with a thoughtful expression, he hadn't really talked to her that much since she had kissed him at the beginning of gym and she was wondering what had happened to him. In a way he still expected him to have his cocky demeanor and selfish attitude, although she knew that he had changed.
At the beginning of lunch she looked around and spotted Madeline, Louise and Paris sitting at a table and she walked over. Although she had had some rough patches with Paris they had talked them through and now apart from Lane Paris was one of her best friends.
"Hey Gilmore sit down," Paris said not looking up from her science textbook.
"Nice to see you too Paris, oh I am fine thanks for asking." Rory replied sarcastically. She looked over at she just kept reading.
"Huh what.. Ok, " Paris replied absently as she kept reading. Rory laughed, she realized that that was how she must look to everybody every time she reads. She started to talk with Madeline and Louise about the upcoming Winter Ball, when she felt somebody brush her hair to the side and kiss the back of her neck. Rory looked behind her and saw that it wasn't Tristan as she expected but some guy that he didn't know.
"And who are you because I do not know you and you just kissed my neck." Rory looked at him with a look that said 'Whatever you are thinking its not going to happen.'
"My name is Jake Warner, I saw you earlier in the gym kissing that guy and he's new. So I just figured that you wouldn't mind coming with me and we could have a little fun." He looked at her with a suggestive look and his eyes traveled pointedly down her body.
She looked at him with disgust and slapped him across the face. He just smiled and grabbed her wrist and started walking her towards the cafeteria exit.
"What do you think you are doing with her?" Jake turned around to find a very pissed off Tristan. "Rory are you okay?" She nodded, but her eyes shot a panicked look at him.
"Hey man I was just going to have some fun with her you can have her when I am done maybe we can take a round with her together if you know what I mean. We can share no harm no foul." Jake started walking away with Rory again when all of a sudden he felt a fist connect with his cheek. "What the he….." He trailed off as he ducked another punch from Tristan. Tristan pushed Jake to the ground and walked over to Rory.
"Are you all right?" He asked her taking her face gently in his hands. She nodded, "Do you want to get out of here?" She dipped her head indicating a yes. He scooped her up and cradled her against his chest and walked out of the cafeteria, through the Chilton halls and to the parking lot. He set her gently in the front seat of his car and pulled the seatbelt around her. He went around to the other side of the car and got in.
He started his car and hit the gas, pulling out of Chilton he didn't want to take her home just yet so brought her to the only other place he could think of. Tristan pulled into his driveway and turned the key off and looked at Rory, she was shivering. He knew that she was in no shape to go back to school or anywhere else just then.
He pulled her over to him and she buried her face into his chest sobbing gently. He just held her in his arms comforting the one that he was falling in love with. Before he had rejected it but right now it didn't seem that bad.
A/N: Hey sorry it took soooo long it just took me forever to get to this. WAY TOO MUCH HOMEWORK. Blame school I always do. Anyway hope you liked the chapter. I'll try to update soon. Read and Review!
